Manfred Kienpointner
Biographic Data
| ID | 1222809 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Manfred Kienpointner |
| GIVEN NAMES | Manfred |
| FAMILY NAME | Kienpointner |
| SIGNATURE | KIENPOINTNER M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universität Innsbruck |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2207-9154 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 131 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Arguing for peace: In celebration of the journal’s 20th anniversary
The reproduction of culture through argumentative discourse: Studying the contested nature of Hong Kong in the international media
Discourse and communication approaches to culture have traditionally been concerned with the role of language in (mis)representing cultures. But how text and talk reproduce and transform cultures is just beginning to be understood. Proceeding from the view that cultural creation, development and transformation are constituted in and through situated discursive practice, this study explores the interconnections between argumentative discourse and …
Ideologies of politeness: Foreword
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The pen is mightier than the sword: Malala Yousafzai’s reaction to verbal and nonverbal aggression in her 2013 UN-speech
On October 9, 2012 Malala Yousafzai, a Pakistani schoolgirl, was severely wounded by a Taliban assassin’s bullet. This was the culmination of a history of conflict in the Swat valley region of north-western Pakistan. The historical, ethnic, political and religious reasons for this conflict are manifold. After several surgeries in Pakistan and Great Britain, Malala Yousafzai miraculously recovered from her serious injuries and was even able to giv…
Topoi
In diesem Artikel werden topoi ("Orte") als zentrale Elemente von Aristoteles' Topik beschrieben, in der er die Disziplin der Dialektik (der philosophischen Debatte) erörtert. Leider liefert Aristoteles keine präzise Definition von topos. Nach der Rekonstruktion von de Pater (1965) können topoi jedoch plausibel dahingehend charakterisiert werden, dass sie die doppelte Funktion von Suchformeln und Schlussregeln haben, zumindest in den meisten eins…
Weather verbs in Latin, German, and other languages. Contrastive and typological remarks
This paper presents an overview of basic sentence patterns containing weather verbs/expressions in Latin and German. This bilateral comparison is then extended towards a multilateral comparison, taking into account some Japanese and Turkish weather verbs/expressions. Furthermore, a tertium comparationis, the so-called “meteo-scale” is sketched out, which places basic sentence patterns describing precipitation processes on a continuum containing t…
Strategic maneuvering in the political rhetoric of Barack Obama
U.S. President Barack Obama’s rhetoric lends itself well as a highly interesting case study for exploring the possibilities of contemporary political rhetoric of being both successful on the one hand and rational, according to normative standards of argumentative discourse, on the other. Taking up the concept of “strategic maneuvering” as developed within Pragma-Dialectics (cf. van Eemeren 2010), a corpus of Obama’s speeches and books is analyzed…
Wirkung
Natürlich war Aristoteles der eigentliche Gründer der später ›Peripatos‹ genannten Schule. Diese Bezeichnung und diejenige ihrer Anhänger als ›Peripatetiker‹ kam vermutlich schon während des Scholarchats (Schulleitung) durch Aristoteles' unmittelbaren Nachfolger Theophrast auf, der dann auch im materiellen und juristischen Sinne den Bestand der Schule durch den Erwerb eines Grundstückes auf dem oder in der Nähe des Lykeion in Athen sichern konnte…
Impoliteness and emotional arguments
After a few introductory remarks on recent impoliteness research, a preliminary definition of impoliteness/rudeness is given. Then the important role emotions play in relation to (im)politeness is briefly sketched, followed by descriptions of some connections between emotional arguments, fallacies and impoliteness. Emotional arguments need not be fallacious nor are they always formulated in impolite ways. However, certain fallacious subtypes of e…
Read the Cultural Other: Forms of Otherness in the Discourses of Hong Kong's Decolonization
Read the Cultural Other contains studies on non-Western discourse. It has two principal aims. Firstly, it argues that the study of non-Western, non-White, and Third-World discourses should become a legitimate, necessary, and routine part of international discourse scholarship. Hitherto, non-Western, non-White, and Third-Word discourses have been relegated and marginalized to a 'local', 'particular', or 'other' place in (or, one might argue, outsi…
Zeitlos, dicht, vollendet
Linguistic Politeness across Boundaries. The Case of Greek and Turkish
On the problem of bias in political argumentation: An investigation into discussions about political asylum in Germany and Austria
Varieties of rudeness: Types and functions of impolite utterances
Standard theories of politeness (Lakoff 1975, Leech 1983, Brown and Levinson 1987) face a number of problems. To mention but a few, it can be doubted that these theories have managed to establish truly universal concepts and classifications of (im)polite behavior; they exaggerate the relative importance of indirectness; they do not treat situational and societal constraints sufficiently; finally, they do not deal with rudeness in enough detail. T…
Varieties of rudeness: Types and functions of impolite utterances
Standard theories of politeness (Lakoff 1975, Leech 1983, Brown and Levinson 1987) face a number of problems. To mention but a few, it can be doubted that these theories have managed to establish truly universal concepts and classifications of (im)polite behavior; they exaggerate the relative importance of indirectness; they do not treat situational and societal constraints sufficiently; finally, they do not deal with rudeness in enough detail. T…
Linguistic Politeness across Boundaries. The Case of Greek and Turkish
Impoliteness and emotional arguments
After a few introductory remarks on recent impoliteness research, a preliminary definition of impoliteness/rudeness is given. Then the important role emotions play in relation to (im)politeness is briefly sketched, followed by descriptions of some connections between emotional arguments, fallacies and impoliteness. Emotional arguments need not be fallacious nor are they always formulated in impolite ways. However, certain fallacious subtypes of e…
Strategic maneuvering in the political rhetoric of Barack Obama
U.S. President Barack Obama’s rhetoric lends itself well as a highly interesting case study for exploring the possibilities of contemporary political rhetoric of being both successful on the one hand and rational, according to normative standards of argumentative discourse, on the other. Taking up the concept of “strategic maneuvering” as developed within Pragma-Dialectics (cf. van Eemeren 2010), a corpus of Obama’s speeches and books is analyzed…
On the problem of bias in political argumentation: An investigation into discussions about political asylum in Germany and Austria
On the problem of bias in political argumentation: An investigation into discussions about political asylum in Germany and Austria
Varieties of rudeness: Types and functions of impolite utterances
Standard theories of politeness (Lakoff 1975, Leech 1983, Brown and Levinson 1987) face a number of problems. To mention but a few, it can be doubted that these theories have managed to establish truly universal concepts and classifications of (im)polite behavior; they exaggerate the relative importance of indirectness; they do not treat situational and societal constraints sufficiently; finally, they do not deal with rudeness in enough detail. T…
Linguistic Politeness across Boundaries. The Case of Greek and Turkish
Zeitlos, dicht, vollendet
Read the Cultural Other: Forms of Otherness in the Discourses of Hong Kong's Decolonization
Read the Cultural Other contains studies on non-Western discourse. It has two principal aims. Firstly, it argues that the study of non-Western, non-White, and Third-World discourses should become a legitimate, necessary, and routine part of international discourse scholarship. Hitherto, non-Western, non-White, and Third-Word discourses have been relegated and marginalized to a 'local', 'particular', or 'other' place in (or, one might argue, outsi…
Impoliteness and emotional arguments
After a few introductory remarks on recent impoliteness research, a preliminary definition of impoliteness/rudeness is given. Then the important role emotions play in relation to (im)politeness is briefly sketched, followed by descriptions of some connections between emotional arguments, fallacies and impoliteness. Emotional arguments need not be fallacious nor are they always formulated in impolite ways. However, certain fallacious subtypes of e…
Wirkung
Natürlich war Aristoteles der eigentliche Gründer der später ›Peripatos‹ genannten Schule. Diese Bezeichnung und diejenige ihrer Anhänger als ›Peripatetiker‹ kam vermutlich schon während des Scholarchats (Schulleitung) durch Aristoteles' unmittelbaren Nachfolger Theophrast auf, der dann auch im materiellen und juristischen Sinne den Bestand der Schule durch den Erwerb eines Grundstückes auf dem oder in der Nähe des Lykeion in Athen sichern konnte…
Strategic maneuvering in the political rhetoric of Barack Obama
U.S. President Barack Obama’s rhetoric lends itself well as a highly interesting case study for exploring the possibilities of contemporary political rhetoric of being both successful on the one hand and rational, according to normative standards of argumentative discourse, on the other. Taking up the concept of “strategic maneuvering” as developed within Pragma-Dialectics (cf. van Eemeren 2010), a corpus of Obama’s speeches and books is analyzed…
Weather verbs in Latin, German, and other languages. Contrastive and typological remarks
This paper presents an overview of basic sentence patterns containing weather verbs/expressions in Latin and German. This bilateral comparison is then extended towards a multilateral comparison, taking into account some Japanese and Turkish weather verbs/expressions. Furthermore, a tertium comparationis, the so-called “meteo-scale” is sketched out, which places basic sentence patterns describing precipitation processes on a continuum containing t…
Topoi
In diesem Artikel werden topoi ("Orte") als zentrale Elemente von Aristoteles' Topik beschrieben, in der er die Disziplin der Dialektik (der philosophischen Debatte) erörtert. Leider liefert Aristoteles keine präzise Definition von topos. Nach der Rekonstruktion von de Pater (1965) können topoi jedoch plausibel dahingehend charakterisiert werden, dass sie die doppelte Funktion von Suchformeln und Schlussregeln haben, zumindest in den meisten eins…
The pen is mightier than the sword: Malala Yousafzai’s reaction to verbal and nonverbal aggression in her 2013 UN-speech
On October 9, 2012 Malala Yousafzai, a Pakistani schoolgirl, was severely wounded by a Taliban assassin’s bullet. This was the culmination of a history of conflict in the Swat valley region of north-western Pakistan. The historical, ethnic, political and religious reasons for this conflict are manifold. After several surgeries in Pakistan and Great Britain, Malala Yousafzai miraculously recovered from her serious injuries and was even able to giv…
The reproduction of culture through argumentative discourse: Studying the contested nature of Hong Kong in the international media
Discourse and communication approaches to culture have traditionally been concerned with the role of language in (mis)representing cultures. But how text and talk reproduce and transform cultures is just beginning to be understood. Proceeding from the view that cultural creation, development and transformation are constituted in and through situated discursive practice, this study explores the interconnections between argumentative discourse and …
Ideologies of politeness: Foreword
Preview this article: Ideologies of politeness, Page 1 of 1 /docserver/preview/fulltext/prag.9.1.01kie-1.gif
Arguing for peace: In celebration of the journal’s 20th anniversary
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